Chief Langburn Fisher
Funeral services for Chief Langburn “Perk” Fisher, 68, Custer County resident, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, in the Clinton First Mennonite Church, officiated by Rev. Lawrence Hart and Doyle Kinney.
A wake service will be from 6 until 8 p.m. this evening (Wednesday) in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.
Fisher died Saturday, July 18, 2015, in the Grace Living Center in Clinton. He was born May 25, 1947 in Thomas, the son of Langburn “Happy” Fisher and Imogene (Chapman) Fisher.
Fisher was raised at Deer Creek in Thomas and started his schooling at Thomas. He later went to Custer City Schools where he was an outstanding athlete.
He graduated in 1966 and received the Panther Boy Award his senior year. Only three months after his high school graduation he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam.
He received numerous commendation medals including the Silver Star, Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
Fisher was honorably discharged in 1969 and returned back home to Oklahoma.
A man of many talents, he made his living doing art, sculptures, carvings and drawings. He traveled extensively but had made Clinton his home the past eight years.
Preceding him in death were his parents; brothers, Bobby Fisher and Lionel Fisher; sisters, infant Deva Fisher, Lodema Fisher, Juanita Fisher and Irma Fisher; nephew, Wilbur Spang; two adopted brothers, Ransel Rhoads and William Littleman; maternal grandparents, Sarah Flyingout Heap of Birds and Temple Chapman; and paternal grandparents, Eugene Fisher and Kitty Belle (Spang) Fisher.
He was a member of the Deer Creek Mennonite Church, and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma where he was one of their chiefs.
He also belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors include two daughters, Shelly Fisher, of Woodward, and Carrie Fisher Edwards, of Watonga; a brother, Eugene Fisher, and his wife, Anna, of Billings, Mont.; sisters, Norma Jean Fisher, of Clinton, Erma Tsotadle, of Ft. Cobb, Carol Gowdy, and her husband, Darren, of Sapulpa, Yvonneda Thompson, and her husband, O.T., of Busby, Mont., Edie Adams and Nathel Shows, of Billings, Mont.; sister-in-law, Nancy Rhoads, of Clinton; adopted brothers, Patrick Cornell, of Clinton, Keith Driscoll, of Custer City, Brian Keith of Oklahoma City; adopted sisters, Irene Hayes, Nellie Littleman and Margaret Howlingwolf; 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Burial with military honors will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery, under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home of Clinton.